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Pop-Overs

A historical breakfast recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Flour
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • ⅞ cup Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • ½ teaspoon Butter

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Mix salt and flour; add milk gradually, in order to obtain a smooth batter. Add egg, beaten until light, and butter; beat two minutes,—using Dover egg-beater,—turn into hissing hot buttered iron gem pans, and bake thirty to thirty-five minutes in a hot oven.

  2. 2

    They may be baked in buttered earthen cups, when the bottom will have a glazed appearance. Small round iron gem pans are best for Pop-overs.

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Where this recipe comes from

Pop-overs, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

This source recipe has been reformatted for Pantry Start but has not yet been kitchen-tested by our editors. Check current food-safety guidance and use your judgment.

Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.